by ThePaterPiper » Tue Mar 06, 2018 1:57 pm
Hey Lads,
Just thought I would share an interesting observation from our blending session last night. Firstly, we have noticed that generally speaking, we never go anywhere near the first three jars off the still, plus the fores of course, so for this run, I figured I would run a big jar, about 5 or 600ml, hard to estimate, but a paul Newman’s spaghetti sauce jar full, then went to about 150ml for 5 jars. From there back to normal, being about 250ml. Not very interesting but it might make sense soon. Might I say!!!
So with the tasting, all went as usual, using a spoon, watered a spoonful down in a glass to have a good smell and a taste from the middle toward tails then toward heads.
Flavour was thin in the middle, it is only gen 1, and just a wee bit of prickle. Nice prickle, not nasty heads prickle but it was a surprise to say the least. As we got to about jar 7, we only took 10 as we were down to 50%, no more prickle, and even less taste, then jar 8 tasted like shite. Well that’s tails we thought, but what’s 9 like? Bejeesus! It was the best darn white dog we have ever tried. Sweet, a little bit of corn, a little bit of a buttery feel. Really very nice! Jar ten? Well we thought at the time of the run that it was tails, so it was another fairly big jar full. What a mistake!!! It was a case of I didn’t mind it, but my mate could taste wet cardboard. If that had been three normal jars, I’m sure we would have got two more to add to the keepit pot!
A similar thing happened back toward the heads, jar 3 was prickly as all get out, but smelt really good, and jar two was smooth and full of flavors like corn and caramel. Four was just like 5, a little bit prickly with sweetness and a hint of corn.
Amazing to me how the flavors change back and forth when there is no change in anything in the process from jar to jar.
Sorry for the long post, but I had to share with somebody who might be interested. My wife couldn’t give a rats arse! :laughing-rolling: